“Don’t you even know the most basic things about historical research? I do! You fool! Hey everyone else listening, this person thinks you do research in *this* way, but everyone knows you do it *that* way!” Now, to answer that kind of question at all often means unpacking those hidden assumptions, which can sometimes make for an interesting answer - after all, a lot of the podcast so far has been me telling people that what they thought they knew about music history was wrong - but when it’s a question being asked by an individual and you answer that way, it can sometimes, frankly, make you look like a horribly unpleasant person, or even a bully. Now there were several questions where someone asked something that seems like a perfectly reasonable question, but contains a whole lot of hidden assumptions that that person hadn’t even considered - about music history, or about the process of writing and researching, or something else.
As you may have noticed, I have a somewhat odd worldview, and look at the world from a different angle from most people sometimes. I got so many questions so quickly that there’s not space to answer them all, and several of them were along the lines of “is artist X going to get an episode?” which is a question I generally don’t answer - though I will answer a couple of those if there’s something interesting to say about them.īut also, there are some I’ve not answered for another reason. However, I’m not going to answer *all* of the questions.
What I’m going to do is do all the questions asked publicly, plus all the questions that have been asked multiple times, in this one, then next week I’m going to put up the more niche questions just for Patreon backers. So instead of doing one reasonable length podcast and one shorter one, I’m actually doing two longer ones. Instead, I only got a couple of questions on the main episode, but so many on the Patreon that I had to stop people asking only a day or so after posting the request for questions. I initially expected to get a fair few comments on the main podcast, and a handful on the Patreon, and then I could do a reasonable-length Q&A podcast from the former and a shorter one from the latter. I was quite surprised by the response to my request for questions, both at the amount of it and at where it came from. I’m making good progress on that, and still hoping and expecting to have episode 151 up some time in early August, though I don’t have an exact date yet. Hello and welcome to the Q&A episode I’m doing while I’m working on creating a backlog. There is a Mixcloud of the music excerpted here which can be found at Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. (Another hour-long Q&A for Patreon backers only will go up next week). This is an hour-long podcast answering some of them. While I’m still on hiatus, I invited questions from listeners.
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